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I have an old Fujitsu laptop that use to run on windows 98 with an EXTERNAL CD VIA PC CARD and a USB FLOPPY DRIVE. Its hard drive crashed and while trying to save the hard drive I formatted it to reinstall my windows 98 on CD. I found out the BIOS will only boot on HARD DRIVE or on USB FLOPPY only. The pc card CD Rom drive will not work and I do not have an MS-Dos driver to boot to this cd drive. I bought several different windows 98 boot floppy disks on Ebay but they won't recognize the CD ROM drive on a pc card. I tried Google/ Yahoo/ Ebay search for windows 98 on floppies but could not find any. Does anybody out there has any idea/s to find or resolved this problem?
I think acessing a PC card in DOS will be a pitched battle.
How about putting the CD drive in a USB case?
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You do NOT have to pay for boot disks...they're free at bootdisk.com
The Win98 setup folder on the Win98SE CD holds 173MB...that translates into 100+ floppies. AFAIK, M$ never offered Win98 on floppies. Needless to say, you shouldn't have formatted without looking into this stuff 1st.
If you post the model of your laptop, CD drive, etc, maybe someone can come up with a way of doing it. Possibly finding the right driver for your CD drive & copying it unto a boot floppy will work. Did you check the Fuji website?
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Do you have a desk top pc? I would get an adapter so you can attach the laptop drive to the pc, you format the laptop drive and sys c it, then copy the win98 folder from the win98 cd to the lap top drive, reinstall the drive back into the laptop, boot it up, change the directorly to win98 and just run the setup from there.
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Follow budm's advice. The adapter is only $5-$10 US.
HTH
Dave
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My advice is that you could go into the bios and auto search hardware. Then press F10 to exit.
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Mr Saunders
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Thanks for the responses. I tried connecting my CD-rom to USB but the computer could not recognized or even boot the CD-Rom. I have Sony Vaio with both pc card and USB adapter. I have a gateway desktop with windows xp. If I try budm's advise I do not know what kind of adapter I will be need. Do i connected it USB to USB. I could sys c this laptop via boot floppy, but kind of program (software) do I need so this two can communicate?
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Here is what the adapter looks like,
http://www.bixnet.com/adfor25to35h....
when you mount the 2.5" drive in the desktop I suggest you make a temp directory on the 2.5 and copy the whole 98cd into that dir. and then replace it in the laptop and run setup from that temp folder...
I have seen these adapters as low as $4.99
Keep the old stuff running
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Hey Jam, not meaning to sound like i'm taking the piss mate, but Win98 was indeed offered on Floppies, 38 of them, I have a new set of them, it's 98se that wasn't offered on floppy disks..
If need be I can scan the floppies & host a pic of them to validate the fact..
I actually opened the box they came in & used winimage to back them up..
Even though the CD versions cabs are 105mb in size, the floppy set only amounts to 62mb total..
I bought them new off ebay...
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